Joe Lilienthal ready to defend PMRA
title in 2006
“It's always nice to win a championship.”
January 27, 2006
Kenmore, NY – Pro Modified Racing Association (PMRA),
www.ProModifiedRacing.com, series champion driver Joe Lilienthal has a
lot to prove this year as he goes out to defend his PMRA championship.
In 2005, with 22 teams in the series, Joe Lilienthal of Kenmore, NY won
the first PMRA title over his Ontario, New York, and Pennsylvania
competitors.
"It's always nice to win a championship,” explained Joe Lilienthal,
driver of the Lilienthal Racing 526-cubic inch Keith Black-constructed
1968 Jeep. "We were in three finals last year and won one of them.”
Lilienthal won the Luskville Dragway event in the JSL Automotive
sponsored entry and took runner-up spots at the second Toronto
Motorsports Park race and at the final event of the season at Lancaster
Raceway Park.
“Kasey Janzen and I will compete as team-mates this year. That should
help improve our program and hopefully we will be able to defend our
title,” said Lilienthal. “If it wasn’t for the help from Kasey and Mike
Swinarski it would be much more difficult to get out and run with these
guys. The PMRA series has a bunch of real stout competitors.”
The Lilienthal Racing entry is powered by an Oddy’s Racing Keith Black
power plant, a Littlefield supercharger, an Oddy’s fuel system, all
coupled to a Lenco three-speed transmission and clutch.
The PMRA has four events confirmed for the 2006 season, the KC Auto
Parts Family Day Celebration at Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, ON,
Saturday, June 24, and the Pro Modified Racing Association is pleased to
be running inaugural events at St. Thomas Dragway in Sparta, ON, August
5 and 6, the Eaton PMRA Challenge at Sanair near Montreal scheduled for
Saturday, August 19, and at the Grand Bend Motorplex, over the Labor Day
weekend.
PMRA officials are in negotiations with several tracks at present for
2006, both eighth and quarter-mile tracks in Michigan, New York, and
Ohio with the plan of presenting a six-event drag racing series in 2006.
Started late in 2004 and entering its second year of operation, the PMRA
ran five events in 2005 at four Ontario, Quebec, and New York locations,
with a different winner at each track. The PMRA provides drag race fans
the opportunity to see and hear popular Pro Modified racing in the class
known as “the world’s fastest door slammers.”
The PMRA is a self-governing organization with its own set of technical
and safety rules based on the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA)
Pro Modified division. Cars in the PMRA capture the true spirit of hot
rodding, and the class offers a widely diverse group of racecars with
different types of 2000-horsepower engines propelling the cars down the
quarter-mile in the 6.20-second range at 230 mph.
